Jomo Kwame Sundaram Several arguments have been advanced to justify privatization since the 1980s. Privatization has been advocated as an easy means to: Reduce the government’s financial and administrative burden, particularly by undertaking and maintaining services and infrastructure; Promote competition, improve efficiency and increase productivity in...
Jayati Ghosh For many Indians, the period of the Emergency in the mid 1970s represents the blackest period for Indian democracy since Independence. As a student at University during that time, seeing the repression and fear all around and knowing some of the people who were...
Jayati Ghosh September 19, 2018 GLOBAL CAPITALISM TODAY: UNSTABLE, MORIBUND, OR JUST RESTING? Ever since the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, the trajectory of the world economy has been hesitant, unstable and prone to many risks. Output recovery has been limited and fragile; and, more significantly,...
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram September 19, 2018 George Soros, Bill Gates and other pundits have been predicting another financial crisis. In their recent book, Revolution Required: The Ticking Bombs of the G7 Model, Peter Dittus and Herve Hamoun, former senior officials of the Bank...
C. P. Chandrasekhar September 17, 2018 Having overcome a legacy of extreme shortage of supply, India’s power sector is in the midst of a crisis with ramifications of a wholly different kind. The crisis arises because firms accounting for significant proportion of power sector assets have...
Jayati Ghosh September 16, 2018 Only the blind or the foolhardy would claim that the Indian economy is in good shape. Despite the government’s obsession with high GDP growth – according to which the Indian economy is doing not just reasonably well but is among the...
Call for Papers : The Japanese Political Economy September 16, 2018 The Japanese Political Economy is rejuvenated and renewed with a new editor, new co-editors and a new, international editorial board. It continues Japanese Economic Studies; a leading journal published continuously since 1972, that was known as Japanese Economy, from 1997 to 2013. The Japanese...
• नीति आयोग ने, एक रिपोर्ट जारी करते हुए भारत में व्यापार के लिए जारी स्थितियों तथा सीमाओं का अध्ययन किया है. • राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर किये गए सर्वे में 3,000 से ज्यादा उपक्रमों का व्यापार करने से सम्बंधित कारणों का आकलन किया. • सर्वे में उपक्रमों...
1.भारत एनएसजी का सदस्य बनने योग्य : अमेरिका • ट्रंप प्रशासन के एक वरिष्ठ अधिकारी ने गुरुवार को कहा कि चीन के वीटो के कारण भारत परमाणु आपूत्तर्िकर्ता समूह (एनएसजी) की सदस्यता हासिल नहीं कर पाया और अमेरिका इस समूह में भारत की सदस्यता की वकालत...